The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and I’m thrilled to report that my book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was named a finalist in the General Nonfiction category. The prize winner in the category was Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. The other finalist was S. C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History.

Congrats. It is one of the best non-fiction books to come out this year, in a year that had a lot of great titles coming out. I hope that the honor will inspire you to put out another amazing book soon :)

Congratulations. I have just finished reading the book and, although I was a skeptic beforehand, I found it extremely interesting and comprehensible (my knowledge of science is limited), and will definitely think more about the way I use a computer from now on. After having read a few books on the subject, from a more literary point of view (David Shields and Frank Rose), I’m still convinced that Internet can be harvested for positive rewards, it’s up to us to figure out how and also to educate users the way you have.

I work in an anglo-american bookshop in Paris, France, and will push your book as much as possible. Do you know if there are any plans for a French translation/publiscation some time soon?